Reading fluency beyond decoding is a limitation to many children with developmental reading disorders. In the interest of remediating dysfluency, contributing factors need to be explored and understood in a developmental framework. The focus of this study is orthographic processing in developmental dyslexia, and how it may contribute to reading fluency. We investigated orthographic processing s...

The most commonly used string similarity measure for spelling correction is minimum edit distance (MED), which is based solely on the orthographic similarity between two strings. In order to overcome this shortcoming, this paper presents a more sophisticated similarity measure that considers both the orthographic and phonetic similarity between two strings. To demonstrate the effectiveness of t...

When reading texts of different but closely related languages, intelligibility is determined among others by the number of words which are cognates of words in the reader’s language, and orthographic differences. Orthographic differences partly reflect pronunciation differences and therefore are partly a linguistic level. Dialectometric studies in particular showed that different linguistic lev...

so far, various romanization schemes have been proposed for capturing persian text using latin alphabet. however, each have served a very specific and yet limited function. this paper proposes an extended romanization scheme that can facilitate a wide range of encoding needed in the field of natural language processing. the proposed scheme endeavors to preserve both orthographic and phonologica...

This paper presents a new system for rapidly acquiring complete 3-D surface models using a single orthographic structured light projector, a pair of planar mirrors, and one or more synchronized cameras. Using the mirrors, we project structured light patterns that illuminate the object from all sides (not just the side of the projector) and are able to observe the object from several vantage poi...

Typing Chinese words on a computer can be carried out with a phonology-based or an orthography-based method. Phonological typing constantly engages typists’ verbal working memory (VWM), while orthographic typing engages their visual-spatial working memory (VSWM). Accordingly, habitual phonological typists would develop a better VWM capacity, while habitual orthographic typists would have a bett...

Historical text presents numerous challenges for contemporary natural language processing techniques. In particular, the absence of consistent orthographic conventions in historical text presents difficulties for any technique or system requiring reference to a fixed lexicon accessed by orthographic form. This paper presents two methods for mapping unknown historical text types to one or more s...

This paper describes a hybrid French Romanian cognate identification module. This module is used by a lexical alignment system. Our cognate identification method uses lemmatized, tagged and sentence-aligned parallel corpora. This method combines statistical techniques, linguistic information (lemmas, POS tags) and orthographic adjustments. We evaluate our cognate identification module and we co...

This article focuses on applying the SERIOL model of orthographic processing to dyslexia. The model is extended to include a phonological route and reading acquisition. We propose that the temporal alignment of serial orthographic and phonological representations is a key aspect of learning to read, driving the formation of a phonemic encoding. The phonemic encoding and the serial representatio...